Re: [RFC] Changes in mac80211 to make at76c50x-usb working again

[Sebastian Smolorz <Sebastian.Smolorz@gmx.de>]

Kalle Valo wrote:
> On 15 June 2010 16:36, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:26 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> >> > the at76c50x-usb driver fails to authenticate with an AP.
> >
> > We need more information on how it fails.
> 
> I debugged this a long time ago. The problem is that firmware's
> CMD_JOIN only works if bssid is correct one. I remember trying
> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, but that didn't work for some reason. The join
> command needs to be sent before association, otherwise transmission
> won't work at all. And if I use a random bssid the firmware will
> filter the replies. But I tested this a long time ago, I might
> remember something wrong.
> 
> I was thinking a hack which would get bssid from association frames
> and then send CMD_JOIN, before the association frame.

Could you elaborate a little bit on this?

How do we proceed to make the driver working again? Do you want to work on 
this issue?

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Sebastian